The Scent of Green Papaya

Here is a film so placid and filled with sweetness that watching it is like listening to soothing music.

This is domestic drama, beautiful to watch, if ever so slowly paced... Quite unlike anything I've seen.

A solid feature debut by Tran Anh Hung, which reaches its notable point of sobriety by examining, with careful aesthetics, family traditions and the condition of women in Vietnamese society. [Full review in Spanish]

The romance does not develop until late in this deliberate but surprisingly beautiful film by Vietnam's Tran Anh Hung.

Extraordinary. I will be eagerly awaiting more from this director.

Scent of Green Papaya's warmth and beauty create a magical feeling that's more important than narrative.

Almost silent, and marked by great pictorial beuaty, the film revolves around a young Vietnamese servant during the French occupation, though politics remains in the background--a classic coming of age